One of the fervid Jewish settlers who was evicted from that disputed house in Hebron last week, Nadia Matar, has sent out a defiant email: “There is no doubt, the more violence they use against us, the more it proves…
All of Greece has been shut down because police shot and killed a 15-year-old boy, accidentally, they say. 1050 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since 2000. And 123 Israel children killed by Palestinians. A cycle of violence, and…
A real debate is happening in our country. Despite all the efforts to railroad John Mearsheimer, an intellectual leader who was once a regular in the Times Op-Ed page till he made the mistake of opposing the Iraq war, he…
in this powerful essay on the Gaza tragedy from an activist in Santa Fe named Joe Mowrey, on Counterpunch: Has the sense of exclusivity and entitlement created by the Zionist experiment in Israel become so great that people there no…
Jeff Blankfort sent along this photo today, which he took on his second trip to Israel/Palestine: In 1983, a year after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon which took 17,000 lives, excluding Sabra and Shatila, I made arrangements as a freelancer to…
Talk about familiar faces, the Forward says that Martin Indyk and Dennis Ross are in the race to be Obama’s point man on the Middle East. As is the truly superior Dan Kurtzer. Let’s pray it’s Kurtzer. All three are…
Syvanen has a smart comment on TPM today: When the Mearsheimer and Walt article came out [in 2006], discussion of its main point was quite muted in the main articles and when referenced in the comments, elicited very strong Zionist…
Adam Horowitz: After supporting the settler movement for 40 years, the Israeli government is having a hard time cracking down on it. Reuters reports that the apartheid system Israel has set up in the occupied territories (one area, two rules…
This week TPM is having a bookclub about Avraham Burg’s great new book. I’m in the conversation, which I find too highminded. Here’s my first post, titled The Jewish conversation, and the American one: Avraham Burg’s book is great and…